"television at 6734 Hollywood Boulevard. Broderick Crawford William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and TV actor, often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his portrayal of Willie Stark in ""All the King's Men"" and for his starring role as Dan Mathews in the television series ""Highway Patrol"" (1955–1959). Until filming ""All the King's Men"", Crawford's career had been largely limited to ""B films"" in supporting or character roles. He realized he did not fit the role of a handsome leading man, once describing himself as looking like a"
"Wayne refused, believing the script to be un-American in many ways. Broderick Crawford, who was eventually cast in the role, won the 1949 Oscar for best male actor, ironically beating out Wayne, who had been nominated for ""Sands of Iwo Jima."" He lost the leading role of Jimmy Ringo in ""The Gunfighter"" (1950) to Gregory Peck due to his refusal to work for Columbia Pictures because its chief, Harry Cohn, had mistreated him years before when he was a young contract player. Cohn had bought the project for Wayne, but Wayne's grudge was too deep, and Cohn sold the script"
"studio, she received critical and commercial acclaim for her performance in drama ""Mildred Pierce"" (1945). The film earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress. From 1946 to 1952, Crawford appeared in a series of critical and box office successes, including the musical drama ""Humoresque"" (1946); film noirs ""Possessed"" (1947, for which she received a second Academy Award nomination) and ""Flamingo Road"" (1949); drama ""The Damned Don't Cry"" (1950); and romantic comedy ""Goodbye, My Fancy"" (1951), among others. She received a third – and final – Academy Award nomination for her performance in the thriller ""Sudden Fear"" (1952). In 1953,"
"King's Men"" (1949), the Best Picture Oscar winner for its year, starring Broderick Crawford. In September 1950, the actor had his name formally changed to ""John Derek"". Columbia promoted him to lead roles, as Robin Hood in ""Rogues of Sherwood Forest"" (1950) with Alan Hale; the ""Los Angeles Times"" called him a ""slim and beautiful youth"". He was meant to follow it with ""The Gainesville Circus"" but the film was never made. Instead Columbia put him in another swashbuckler, ""Mask of the Avenger"" (1951), then they gave him a good dramatic role in a prestige film, ""Saturday's Hero"" (1951), as"
"2009, the critics’ group have agreed with the Academy on six occasions: Steven Soderbergh for ""Traffic"" (2000), Clint Eastwood for ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), Ang Lee for ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005), Martin Scorsese for ""The Departed"" (2006), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), and Kathryn Bigelow for ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009). Oscar winner denoted by * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking."
"Picture, Broderick Crawford won the award for Best Actor and Mercedes McCambridge was honored as Best Supporting Actress. Rossen was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director but lost to Joseph L. Mankiewicz for ""A Letter to Three Wives"". Rossen won a Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. His next film, ""The Brave Bulls"", was directed in 1950 and released in 1951. This was Rossen's last work before the studios blacklisted him. ""New York Times"" critic Bosley Crowther called this ""the best film on bull-fighting yet."" After the end of"
"with Freudian psychoanalyst Emilio Servadio. Fellini cast American actor Broderick Crawford to interpret the role of an aging swindler in ""Il Bidone"". Based partly on stories told to him by a petty thief during production of ""La Strada"", Fellini developed the script into a con man's slow descent towards a solitary death. To incarnate the role's ""intense, tragic face"", Fellini's first choice had been Humphrey Bogart but after learning of the actor's lung cancer, chose Crawford after seeing his face on the theatrical poster of ""All the King’s Men"" (1949). The film shoot was wrought with difficulties stemming from Crawford's"
"to ""Peeping Tom"" (1960). He received a BAFTA nomination for ""The Bedford Incident"" in 1965. Listing of films: 1942 The Foreman Went to France 1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1944 This Happy Breed 1944 The Way Ahead 1945 They Knew Mr. Knight 1946 A Matter of Life and Death 1947 Black Narcissus 1948 The Red Shoes 1950 Gone to Earth 1950 The Elusive Pimpernel 1951 The Tales of Hoffmann 1952 Folly to Be Wise 1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men 1953 Twice upon a Time 1953 Front Page Story 1954 The Constant Husband"
"movie stars, and one of the highest-paid women in the United States. In 1945 she starred in ""Mildred Pierce"" and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She would go on to receive Best Actress nominations for ""Possessed"" (1947) and ""Sudden Fear"" (1952). Crawford continued to act in film and television throughout the 1950s and 1960s; she achieved box office success with the highly successful horror film ""Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?"" (1962), in which she starred alongside Bette Davis, her long-time rival. In 1955, Crawford became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company through her marriage to company Chairman and Chief"
"for the film, while John Huston won the Best Director Academy Award, thus making them the first father and son to win at the same ceremony. In the 1950 release of the film entitled, ""September Affair"", starring Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten, Walter Huston sang the title song in the movie. ""September Song"" was a very popular romantic tune during the 1950s and '60s. He had originally appeared in the Broadway show ""Knickerbocker Holiday"", where he debuted the song. His last film was the 1950 western ""The Furies"" with Barbara Stanwyck. Along with Anthony Veiller, he narrated the ""Why We"
"her suitability by taking a screen test; she agreed. After the test, Curtiz agreed to Crawford's casting. ""Mildred Pierce"" was a resounding critical and commercial success. It epitomized the lush visual style and the hard-boiled film noir sensibility that defined Warner Bros. movies of the late forties. Crawford earned the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The success of ""Mildred Pierce"" revived Crawford's movie career. For several years, she starred in what were called ""a series of first-rate melodramas"". Her next film was ""Humoresque"" (1946), co-starring John Garfield, a romantic drama about a love affair between an"
"Red Pony"" (1949), ""Under the Gun"" (1951) and ""A Place in the Sun"" (1951), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, as the Taylor character's father. Perhaps his most famous film role was that of Adam Stanton, the idealistic doctor who finally kills Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) in the classic film ""All the King's Men"" (1949). Another notable role was Father Jean Massieu in ""Joan of Arc"" (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman as Joan. Strudwick made many appearances on television, including the role of Dr. Charles Morris in the 1958 ""Perry Mason"" episode, ""The Case of the Fugitive Nurse."" He"
"films topping the American Film Institute's AFI 100 list include Orson Welles's ""Citizen Kane"" (1941), which is frequently cited as the greatest film of all time, ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Godfather"" (1972), ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939), ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939), ""The Graduate"" (1967), ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946) and ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950). The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, have been held annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1929, and the Golden Globe Awards have been held"
"49th British Academy Film Awards The 49th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 23 April 1996, honoured the best films of 1995. Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility won the award for Best Film. ""Sense and Sensibility"" also won awards for Best Actress (Emma Thompson) and Supporting Actress (Kate Winslet). """" of director Michael Radford won the awards for Best Film not in the English Language, Director and Film Music. Nigel Hawthorne was voted Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in ""The Madness of King George"". The same film was"
"7th Golden Globe Awards The 7th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1949 films, were held on February 23, 1950. ""' Broderick Crawford - ""All the King's Men"" ""' Olivia de Havilland - ""The Heiress"" ""' ""Champion photographed by Franz F. Planer"" ""' ""The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad by Walt Disney"" ""' Robert Rossen - ""All the King's Men"" ""' ""All the King's Men directed by Robert Rossen"" ""' ""Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette), Italy"" ""' ""The Inspector General - Johnny Green"" ""' ""Battleground - Robert Pirosh"" ""' ""James Whitmore - Battleground"" ""' ""Mercedes McCambridge"
"Oscars, winning four: Best Picture, Best Director for Richardson, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score. It also won two Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, and three BAFTA Awards including Best Film and Best British Film. In 1999 the British Film Institute named it the 51st greatest British film of the 20th Century. The story begins with a silent film sequence during which the good Squire Allworthy returns home after a lengthy stay in London and discovers a baby in his bed. Thinking that his barber, Mr. Partridge, and one of his servants, Jenny"
"""A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"" (1945), one of his first attempts to film dramas focused on contemporary concerns, which later became his forte. Two years later he directed ""Gentleman's Agreement"", where he tackled a seldom-discussed topic in America, antisemitism, for which he won his first Oscar as Best Director. In 1949 he again dealt with a controversial subject when he directed ""Pinky"", which dealt with issues of racism in America, and was nominated for 3 Academy Awards. In 1947, he directed the courtroom drama ""Boomerang!"", and in 1950 he directed ""Panic in the Streets"", starring Richard Widmark, in a thriller"
"band being shipped to England. He returned to films with roles in ""Black Angel"" (1946), a film noir and ""Slave Girl"" (1947) with Yvonne de Carlo. Crawford made ""The Flame"" (1947) for Republic, and ""The Time of Your Life"" (1948) for James Cagney's company. He went back to Paramount for ""Sealed Verdict"" (1948) and had a co-starring role in ""Bad Men of Tombstone"" (1949) for the King Brothers. At Warner Bros Crawford was in ""A Kiss in the Dark"" (1949) with David Niven and Jane Wyman and ""Night Unto Night"" (1949) with Ronald Reagan and Viveca Lindfors. He was also"
"career, ""Across the Pacific"" (1942), ""The Man Who Came to Dinner"" (1942), ""Possessed"" (1947), ""Flamingo Road"" (1949), ""The Damned Don't Cry"" (1950). After her career at Warner's fizzled out slowly even though she wished to remain with Warner's, after years of reinventing herself, she bought out her contract. Afterwards, she bought the rights to a screenplay called Sudden Fear which brought her a third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in 1953. Jerry Wald remains as a great producer and after the movies he made with ""Joan Crawford"", he kept going made very popular films such as the Eddy Duchin"
"film at the UK box office in 1969. Steiger was offered the title role in ""Patton"" (1970), but turned it down because he did not want to glorify war. The role was then given to George C. Scott, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance. Steiger called this refusal his ""dumbest career move"", remarking, ""I got on my high horse. I thought I was a pacifist."" Instead, he chose to portray Napoleon Bonaparte opposite Christopher Plummer in Sergei Bondarchuk's ""Waterloo"" (1970), a co-production between the Soviet Union and Italy. One commentator wrote: ""I watched with extraordinary respect, no,"
"Champion (1949 film) Champion is a 1949 American film noir drama sport film based on a short story by Ring Lardner. It recounts the struggles of boxer ""Midge"" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by Franz Planer. The drama features Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, and Arthur Kennedy. The film won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and gained five other nominations as well, including a Best Actor for Douglas. Several clips from the film were used in Douglas' 1999 film ""Diamonds"" to"
"older woman and a younger man. She starred alongside Van Heflin in ""Possessed"" (1947), for which she received a second Academy Award nomination, although she did not win. In ""Daisy Kenyon"" (1947), she appeared opposite Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda, and in ""Flamingo Road"" (1949), her character has an ultimately deadly feud with a corrupt southern sheriff played by Sydney Greenstreet. She made a cameo appearance in ""It's a Great Feeling"" (1949), poking fun at her own screen image. In 1950, she starred in the film noir ""The Damned Don't Cry"" and in the melodrama ""Harriet Craig"". In 1947, Crawford"
"play by Martin Flavin] supplies plenty of polish and good dialog to see it through."" Convicted (1950 film) Convicted is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Henry Levin starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford. It was the third Columbia Pictures film adaptation of the 1929 stage play ""The Criminal Code"" by Martin Flavin, following Howard Hawk's ""The Criminal Code"" (1931) and John Brahm's ""Penitentiary"" (1938). The prison drama tells of Joe Hufford (Glenn Ford), a man convicted of manslaughter. George Knowland (Broderick Crawford) is the warden who understands Hufford and tries to help him adjust to prison life."
"some of which toured New York and England. His work led to a number of notable film roles, including two mid-1930s John Ford films, ""The Informer"" and ""The Plough and the Stars"" (1936), and the part of the police inspector in pursuit of IRA man James Mason in Carol Reed's ""Odd Man Out"" (1947). Other films in which he appeared include ""The Mark of Cain"" (1947), ""The Fallen Idol"" (1948, again for Reed, and again as a police inspector), Alfred Hitchcock's ""Under Capricorn"" (1949), ""The Bad Lord Byron"" (1949), ""Landfall"" (1949), ""Marry Me!"" (1949), Disney's ""Treasure Island"" (1950), ""Captain Horatio"
"Crossfire (film) Crossfire is a 1947 film noir drama film which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, ""Gentleman's Agreement"". The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel ""The Brick Foxhole"" by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks. The film stars Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Robert Ryan, and Gloria Grahame. It received five Academy Award nominations, including Ryan for Best Supporting Actor and Gloria Grahame for Best Supporting Actress. It was the first B movie to receive a best picture"
"to be one of her more acclaimed roles and did nothing but promote her career further as a serious dramatic actress (she won an Oscar for ""Mildred Pierce"" in 1945, which she claims this film had a cumulative effect in helping her win that award). Crawford's scar makeup was credited to Jack Dawn, who created makeup for such films as ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939) and ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" (1941)."" A Woman's Face A Woman's Face is a 1941 American film noir drama directed by George Cukor, starring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt. It tells the"
"Film Institute in these lists: ""Champion"" was presented on ""Screen Directors Playhouse"" on NBC on March 17, 1950, with Douglas reprising his role from the film. Champion (1949 film) Champion is a 1949 American film noir drama sport film based on a short story by Ring Lardner. It recounts the struggles of boxer ""Midge"" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by Franz Planer. The drama features Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, and Arthur Kennedy. The film won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing"
"Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 26th Academy Awards. Torch Song (1953 film) Torch Song is a 1953 American Technicolor musical romantic drama film distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Joan Crawford and Michael Wilding in a story about a Broadway star and her rehearsal pianist. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes and was based upon the story ""Why Should I Cry?"" by I.A.R. Wylie in a 1949 issue of ""The Saturday Evening Post"". The film was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sidney Franklin, Henry Berman and Charles Schnee. Crawford's singing voice was dubbed by India Adams."
"movie legend."" For the 27th Academy Awards the film received nominations for Best Picture (won by ""On the Waterfront""), Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart, losing to Marlon Brando for ""On the Waterfront""), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Tully), Best Screenplay, Best Sound Recording (John P. Livadary), Best Film Editing, and Best Dramatic Score (Max Steiner), but won no awards. Dmytryk was also nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. The Caine Mutiny (film) The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American film. A fictional Navy drama set in the Pacific during World War II, it was directed"
"35th Academy Awards The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra. The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of the long-running feud between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. They had starred together for the first time in ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", a surprise hit the previous summer. Davis was nominated for her role as the title character, a faded child star who humiliates the wheelchair-bound sister who eclipsed her fame in adulthood, while Crawford"
"Crawford and ""Gaslight"" (1944) with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. During this era, Cukor forged an alliance with screenwriters Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, who had met in Cukor's home in 1939 and married three years later. Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including ""A Double Life"" (1947) starring Ronald Colman, ""Adam's Rib"" (1949), ""Born Yesterday"" (1950), ""The Marrying Kind"" (1952), and ""It Should Happen to You"" (1954), all featuring Judy Holliday, another Cukor favorite, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for ""Born Yesterday"". In December 1952, Cukor was approached by Sid"
"won the Best Actor Oscar for ""From Here to Eternity"" instead of him. It is said that he felt he was given the award as consolation for not having previously won it for ""Sunset Boulevard"". In addition, Wilder was nominated for the Best Director Oscar, and Strauss for Best Supporting Actor. Stalag 17 Stalag 17 is a 1953 comedy-drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is an informant. The film was adapted by Billy"
"whereupon director Elia Kazan cast Lee J. Cobb as Willy, and Arthur Kennedy as one of Willy's sons, Biff Loman, two men that the director had worked with in the film ""Boomerang"" (1947). March later regretted turning down the role and finally played Willy Loman in Columbia Pictures's 1951 film version of the play, directed by Laslo Benedek, receiving his fifth and final Oscar nomination as well as a Golden Globe Award. March also played one of two leads in ""The Desperate Hours"" (1955) with Humphrey Bogart. Bogart and Spencer Tracy had both insisted upon top billing and Tracy withdrew,"